Off the Rails

Andrew Murray is Communications Officer for the train drivers' union ASLEF. He is the author of Flashpoint: World War 3.

""Andrew Murray rightly draws attention to the fact that - far from modernising the railways in the interests of the customer - the break-up and privatisation of rail has led to catastrophe and a deteriorating service. His conclusion that rail privatisation is not only 'uniquely awful' but has a wider message about the role of the private sector in the public services is highly relevant to the debate now taking place about the future of those services."" - Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London "Andrew Murray has produced a mini-masterpiece and done his country an enormous favour ... In a better world ASLEF union organisers would distribute free copies at mainline stations to weary, humiliated commuters." - New Statesman ""In exposing the failings that enterprise and political expediency have brought us so far, [this] combination of forceful reasoning and emotional polemics carries the day. The most ardent free-marketer will struggle to rebut [it]."" -- Daily Telegraph "... prescient..." - Financial Times "It is not often that one can describe a book examining policy failures, mmanagement failures and risk assessment at as a 'rattling good yarn'" - Tribune "Meticulously researched and well-written, this book is a must." - Morning Star